Chi Chi (giant panda)

However, the attempts to mate them were unsuccessful due to sexual imprinting as a result of being reared by human keepers.

[2] In May of the same year, the Austrian animal broker, Heini Demmer, acquired Chi Chi from Beijing Zoo in exchange for an collection of African hoofstock and brought the animal back to Moscow Zoo.

However, the Treasury Department stepped in and announced that the US trade embargo on goods from China extended even to pandas.

The Frankfurt Zoological Garden provided a temporary home for the panda until Demmer decided to temporarily hire the animal out to European zoos.

[10][11] However, the organization's current logo is not the logo designed by Peter Scott but a later one, designed for WWF in 1986 when it changed its name from World Wildlife Fund to World Wide Fund for Nature.

Her remains, now a stuffed exhibit, are sitting in a glass case at London's Natural History Museum.